Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Office of the SecretaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Tributes to Honorable Felton McLellan Johnston, Secretary of the Senate Upon the Occasion of His Retirement. Delivered on the Floor of the United States Senate
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Office of the SecretaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Tributes to Honorable Felton McLellan Johnston, Secretary of the Senate, Upon the Occasion of His Retirement. Delivered on the Floor of the United States Senate. October 22, 1965. -- Ordered to be Printed
Author: Tributes to the Honorable William F. Hildenbrand, Secretary of the Senate, in the United States Senate, Upon the Occasion of His Retirement from the Senate
Author: Tributes to the Honorable Thomas F. Eagleton in the United States Senate Upon the Occasion of His Retirement from the Senate. October 18, 1986. October 18, 1986. -- Ordered to be Printed
Author: United States. Congress. SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Tributes to the Honorable Stuart Symington of Missouri in the United States Senate
Author: Stuart SymingtonTributes to the Honorable Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts in the Congress of the United States. Upon the Occasion of His Retirement as a Senator. October 20, 1966. -- Ordered to be Printed
Author: Tributes to Dr. Floyd M. Riddick, the Second Parliamentarian of the Senate, Upon the Occasion of His Retirement and Designation as Parliamentarian Emeritus Delivered on the Floor of the United States Senate. December 19, 1974. -- Ordered to be Printed
Author: Tributes to Floyd M. Riddick, 2d Parliamentarian of Senate Upon Occasion of His Retirement and Designation as Parliamentarian Emeritus
Author: The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina
Author: Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
"The objective of this report is to identify and establish a roadmap on how to do that, and lay the groundwork for transforming how this Nation- from every level of government to the private sector to individual citizens and communities - pursues a real and lasting vision of preparedness. To get there will require significant change to the status quo, to include adjustments to policy, structure, and mindset"--P. 2.
The Education of Henry Adams
Author: Henry AdamsPublisher: Standard Ebooks
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
One of the most well-known and influential autobiographies ever written, The Education of Henry Adams is told in the third person, as if its author were watching his own life unwind. It begins with his early life in Quincy, the family seat outside of Boston, and soon moves on to primary school, Harvard College, and beyond. He learns about the unpredictability of politics from statesmen and diplomats, and the newest discoveries in technology, science, history, and art from some of the most important thinkers and creators of the day. In essentially every case, Adams claims, his education and upbringing let him down, leaving him in the dark. But as the historian David S. Brown puts it, this is a “charade”: The Education’s “greatest irony is its claim to telling the story of its author’s ignorance, confusion, and misdirection.” Instead, Adams uses its “vigorous prose and confident assertions” to attack “the West after 1400.” For instance, industrialization and technology make Adams wonder “whether the American people knew where they were driving.” And in one famous chapter, “The Dynamo and the Virgin,” he contrasts the rise of electricity and the power it brings with the strength and resilience of religious belief in the Middle Ages. The grandson and great-grandson of two presidents and the son of a politician and diplomat who served under Lincoln as minister to Great Britain, Adams was born into immense privilege, as he knew well: “Probably no child, born in the year, held better cards than he.” After growing up a Boston Brahmin, he worked as a journalist, historian, and professor, moving in early middle age to Washington. Although Adams distributed a privately printed edition of a hundred copies of The Education for friends and family in 1907, it wasn’t published more widely until 1918, the year he died. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1919, and in 1999 a Modern Library panel placed it first on its list of the best nonfiction books published in the twentieth century. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.